"Future of access charges"

Tom Evslin points out that IP telephony is like email, moving as software between a vast number of end points. Voice is just another application. If you’ve worked in communications technology in the past few years, you’ve heard that before. Big deal.

But Evslin goes a bit further. What, he asks, happens to
access charges in that world? His answer will
surprise you. The Future of Access Charges (PowerPoint) makes sense on an abstract level. Then I read:

And now with Skype surpassing 100,000,000 downloads and with
millions of subscribers online at any time, the VoIP-to-VoIP calls are becoming
very significant.

Now that’s understatement. OK, I get it now.

Evslin describes himself as a "serial ceo" who also happend to run AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. I'd say he's one sharp cookie.